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Peabody Essex Museum distinctive|elegant|unforgettable Host your events in our magnificent Atrium For information please contact Natalia Laskaris at 978-542-1615 or visit pem.org/venues 161 Essex Street | Salem, MA 01970 | 978-745-9500 | pem.org 2015 DATES STILL AVAILABLE MK3218_Functions_NS_Mag_Dec_FNL.indd 1 10/3/14 1:57 PM nutritious food and physical activities. For Casey, creating opportunities for people to give and to be educated in the process is most gratifying. The group started with four women on the board. They began hosting breakfasts and bringing in speakers. "We needed people to understand what we were doing," notes Casey. "People came because they were interested in the topic." Glen Urquhart School was purposefully chosen as their meeting place because a number of women had ties there. They brought in agencies like Partners Healthcare who do a lot of work around childhood obesity, including research into effective strategies for combating it. Casey dis- covered Playworks in Boston and invited them to speak, too. "I was trying to give exposure to agencies as well as donors about what was going on." 122 Super Women: Above, Women in Action, Seeding a Cause luncheon guests Martha Cox Stavos and Gail Coote Philanthropy ne Photographs courtesy of the North Shore United Way